I don't use Bullseye powder so I cannot comment on that. I have recovered bullets with the powders that I use and have never found a boogered up base from powder attacking the coating. You are...
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Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I don't use Bullseye powder so I cannot comment on that. I have recovered bullets with the powders that I use and have never found a boogered up base from powder attacking the coating. You are...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Yup, they are underbaking the polymer. It still works fine for our purposes These coatings only have to survive one trip down the barrel. The boolits still pass the hammer test and the coating in...
Forum: Reloading Equipment
It's pretty slick as a cast boolit sizer. I've done a bunch of different sized powdercoated bullets and even sized a hundred .358 jacketed Speer 180 grainers to .356 to use in a .350 legend. I...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
When I was stationed in Iceland with the US Air Force, I ate horse meat, sheep heads and whale meat. All were actually pretty good tasting.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
People "knew the world was flat" for many years. Some still do! When someone shows a different way to do something and has taken the time to actually do it and find it works for them, there is no...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Home Depot. It's called an egg crate light diffuser. Easy to cut to whatever size you need.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
Mine were hexagon too... The same exact ones you used. I have no idea why the wouldn't work for me.
198077 This is what I use now. Much faster to load a tray.
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I use nitrile gloves and can stand up my boolets as fast as I can handle them. Don't have to worry about knocking others over with my fat fingers and can get a lot on a small toaster oven pan. I had...
Forum: Coatings and Alternatives
I got a couple of those silicone trivets to try. I tried powder coating Lee 358-158 with Eastwood powder and every one of them popped up out of the squares and laid over on their sides during baking.
Forum: Cast Boolits
I do the same. I have only had a drip a few times in the last several years and it went away when I raised and lowered the handle. I must be lucky.:p
I use a PID temperature controller now and am...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
My mother in law killed a rattlesnake with her hoe when she was tending the garden. This was near Redman in Huron County about 1965. There was also the wolverine that made Minden City swamp it's home...
Forum: Cast Boolits
There is no post sizing with the 45-70 LFCD. It is not made like the pistol dies.
Forum: Cast Boolits
You say you would prefer to crimp in a separate step from seating as many do. Why do you not want to use the 45-70 LFCD? You do know that the rifle factory crimp dies do not post size the cartridge...
Forum: Cast Boolits
My Lee 4-20 pot has never leaked either and I've used charred sawdust on top for a couple of years. Maybe we are doing something else wrong:-(
Forum: Reloading Equipment
Forster Co Ax since I just got it. I'm waiting on the LS jaws so I can use it for 45-70. The Lee Classic turret gets the most use for revolver stuff and the Hornady LNL AP for blasting ammo in my...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I don't ever recall feeling a .454 casull handgun or any long gun kick when shooting at an animal. I've never used a large safari rifle but heavy shotgun slug loads and full throttle 45-70 loads only...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
Aiming true and hitting where you should are different things. Unless you recover the animal you can never be sure exactly where it was hit. A twig or branch can deflect any bullet somewhat and game...
Forum: Hunting with CB's
In my experience, animals hit with a sharp broadhead in the heart/lung area die just as quickly as gunshot ones. Slow, lingering deaths are attributed to poor shot placement regardless of the weapon...
Forum: Leverguns
Henry Repeating Arms Co. is not an importer. They build all their guns right here in the USA. They have plants in Bayonne, New Jersey and Rice Lake, Wisconsin. The company Motto is "Made in America,...
My First Henry Big Boy in .45 Colt (brass model with octagon barrel) definitely liked shorter cartridges. The 300 grain Lee RFN was about the outer limit. I couldn't close the action on a round...
Forum: Cast Boolits
I never slugged mine but both the brass Big Boy and the steel Big Boy shoot fine without leading with my .452 sized boolits. My Big Boy steel model has a longer chamber than the brass one and will...
Forum: Leverguns
Henry says their Big Boys will eat a steady diet of Buffalo Bore ammo which is a whole lot stouter than your load.
Forum: Lead and Lead Alloys
If you must use a flat bottom pan, like a cast iron frying pan for smelting small amounts of lead, get one of these to fill your ingot molds. You can get almost to the bottom....
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |